Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-27
State News.
ARoosrook.

HoN inteHueu 10 nOiu the uftt OF the series at
South Presque Isle, on Tuesday, October
1Ith.
The North Aroostook cattle show and fair
will be held at Presque Isle Sept. 18th, 18th
and 18th
Aroostook is to have summer resort at
Lakeside, Nickerson Lake. New Limerick.
Twenty lots have already been sold. A lot
has been run out and presented to Rev. Mr..
Hudson Sawyer for a rectory. No less than
twenty Eve cottages will be erected another
season.
The Herald says that Patten and the entire
region round about is all ablsze for the
Northern Maine railroad, and will go to the
bottom of their pockets to help secure it.
CUMBERLAND.
The Lemuel Jones family of Brunswick had
a reunion, Saturday Forty-two persons were
present. Ten children are living all of whom
were present. The oldest child is So years, the
youngest "a years old.
dangerous fraud in the shape of one
dollar certificate raised TO a ten WAS offered
at one of the Portland banks Wednesday.
FRANKLIN.
The Pennington Jail is rapidly rising from
its ruins under Contractor Greenleafs, of
Lewiston, skilled workmanship The heavy
the neat pretty, jailor's cottage by its side is
already rooted and boarded.
HANCOCK.
The electric light which illumines the Ellis
worth American editors hall had peculiar
freak the other night. THE brass tubing, in
side of which is the electric wire, was ap-
parently all ablsze, and formed the center of
very sensational coufagralion. The flames
reached out in every direction, and great
sparks were falling fast on the carpet The
fire continued for two or three minutes and
then suddenly went out. An examination
showed an aperture in the brass tube about
a foot In length. and all of the metal for that
distance and more was discolored. The
house was filled with smoke of very often
sive odor"
The Lincoln County Educational Associa-
non will meet at Waldoboro September 8 and
10 This meeting will be the largest ever
held in this county.
movement is on foot to stock Damaris
Gotta Lake with land-locked salmon. Such
move If carried out would add greatly to the
wealth of the lake, it being already stocked
with perch, bass and pickerel.
PENoBsCoT.
A Bangor boy, while playing along the
warves, picked up $40 in bills which had
been dropped by some careless person.
There have been six deaths from consump
ton in Etna since April.
PIsCATAoUIs.
The steamers on Mooshead Lake now
number fourteen, five more than last summer.
The Willimantic correspondent of the
Observer says of crops Many fields of grain
are ready TO cut if it was suitable weather to
do SO the pea crop is almost a failure this
year. all vines and no peas /; potatoes also bid
fair to be very Light crop, only few in a
hill with large growth of tops: corn and
beans have got very heavy growth, so if
the frost holds of there will be good crop
of them; apples will be very scarce and the
yield very light.
is reported to be very light.
SAGADAHoC.
A landslide occurred Wednesday in the big
cut at Woolwich, on the Knox & Lincoln,
tons of earth falling from q height Of 10
feet to the track beneath, burying it several
feet deep for distance of so feet. Men
worked all night in removing the earth.
Andrew J. Libby of Embden, has cut this
season 200 loads of good hay which he figures
at about l50 tons. In one day during the
season he put into the barn 43 loads, and
during eight and one half days he housed l2l
loads.
The post-offce at Troy Centre has been
discontinued.
A few days ago S II. Willard, of Mercer,
al nd 20
answer to the charge of taking illegal fees
for obtaining pension for Harrison Farrand
of Mercer. Upon hearing he was held for
$1,000, to answer to the next term of the u.
S. court at Bath, in September. About four
weeks since he made a similar trip to answer,
in company with S. d. Greenleat, of Starks,
for taking illegal fees in the case of Darius
Stevens of Madison, and was discharged
while Greenleaf was held.
The Pttsfeld Advertiser says: The survey
of the Somerset X. r is now completed be-
tween Scion and Bingham, we understand.
1t is nearly In the line of the survey made by
ID j Stewart for Mr.. Keene. At their meet
ing at Oakland, the bondhOlders of the Som
erset road voted to make further issue of
bonds and mortgages to the amount of 1925,
600 to extend the railroad to Bingham. The
cost of the line to that point 10 estimated at
about s2l0,0O0. The grading of the spur
track to Dodiin Granite quarry at Norrdge-
wock is under contract.
Mrs. Mary Carr, aged 80, an 1912 pension
er, died Friday last in Pittsfeld.
Mrs. E. E. Libby has been appointed post.
mistress at Larone vice Albion X. Libby,
moved away.
WALDO.
Ssvs the Belfast Journal: Some three
weeks ago, Young son of Frank Emmons,
Headlof the Tide, Belfast, found pearl in a
fresh water clam taken from the stream in
that vicinity Thaver & Adams. jewellers, of
this city. sent the pearl to New York and one
day recently received check for Sl5.-Mr.
John Robbins of this city, aged 90 years, is
the smallest man in Maine, if not 10 the
United States. He stepped on the scales at
O. G. Whitea market one day last week, and
weighed just 80 pounds. He stands 40 inches
in height.
The prosecutions for illegal salmon fishing
at the mouth of the Penobscot river are lead
ing to some complications, says the Belfast
Journal. The question to be decided is hat
ls meant by Penobscot river. as the law says
those on the river are exempt. The sympa
thy of the community is with the fishermen,
for if they are liable the law works an injus-
tice. Above Fort Point there are 1876 weirs
and below the Point there are IL. 1t is an
injustice to allow the l35 to fish at all times
and compel the IL to open their forty eight
hours every week. Experience proves chat
the greatest catches have been made during